Re: sample.emacs to break custom-set-face in 21.2b16 under native NT

Jan> Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com&gt; writes: Jan> Please make sure your .elc are up to date and you are not Jan> suffering from the problems the other NT users were seeing. Good point. I just byte-compiled xemacs/lisp/*.el Jan> Please give the values of the relevant specifiers. Jan> I mean what does (face-font 'default) give you (face-font 'default) #<font-specifier global=<unspecified> fallback=(((mswindows) . "Courier New:Regular:10::Western") ((mswindows) . "Courier:Regular:10::Western") ((mswindows) . "Fixedsys:Regular:9::Western")) 0x196> Jan> (make-face-unitalic font-lock-comment-face tags '(custom)) >> I am calling this with tags of nil, like custom does. Jan> RED ALERT! Custom should be making _all_ its changes with a Jan> 'custom tag! ALERT CANCELED! I was referring to your original example Jan> (make-face-unitalic font-lock-comment-face tags '(custom)) which should have been Jan> (make-face-unitalic font-lock-comment-face locale '(custom)) So I was doing all calls with a *locale* of nil and tags value of *'(custom)*. Jan> Here is probably the problem. There might be some bug in Jan> frob-face-property (or the way customize uses it). The use of Jan> it with a non-nil tags probably has never been tested very Jan> well.. Hmmh, BUT, mimicing custom by calling (make-face-unitalic font-lock-comment-face nil '(custom)) directly works the second time around. The question probably is why it fails for the first time (returning [default]). Grüezi, Adrian Jan> That's all for now, have to go, Jan> Jan Jan> -- Jan> Jan Vroonhof http://www.math.ethz.ch/~vroonhof/ Jan> Mathematik, vroonhof ＠ math.ethz.ch Jan> HG E16, ETH-Zentrum, Tel: +41-1-6325456/25154 Jan> Raemistrasse 101, CH-8092 Zuerich. Fax: +41-1-6321085 -- Adrian Aichner Teradyne GmbH, European Design Center Integra Test Division Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 (What is a Fax?) D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail adrian.aichner(a)teradyne.com